The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-12

five inmates, beef tea every half hour
oysters before going to bed and port
wine whenever faint feeling come
! upon them. One man thinks boxing
will keep him strong: another. rowing;
third. walking 80 many miles every
day without amy object; a fourth. going
To bed at a particular hour every night;
Il fifth, oatmeal every morning.: Il sixth.
bathing every day. and 80 forth.
Physical exercise il. no doubt. one ct
the greatest pre>cryativc> of life and
health. but when ovrrlonc il has killed
thousands of strong men by heart
disease. consumption. apopleNy or par
alysi>. Mr.. Gladstone has recruited his
strength for many wears by Telling trees
and his diet i Very simple. a little fish,
some bread and cheese and half pint
of bitter ale often serving him for a
dinner at his club after a hard days
work. Other brain workers, like Arch
bishop Whatcly. have had enormous
appctitr> aud been equal to three nrtii-
nary men ut Il dinner table. Pure ali
and pure water have Il great deal To dc
with longevity. 81 much 81 that in the
lake districts of Wrsimorrland. Eng
land. the average age of those whc
died during recent very severe winter
WAS above ci@liIy-iive years.
Some Samitarian> are always saying
"take a rest; let your mind lie fallow;
don't work So much. and seem Ia
think that brain work especially is
constant drain upon one : vital capital.
Others, | believe more truly. look upon
idlencSS as the real thief of time. and
point 10 the great workers who have
lived To a grand old age. Mathema-
ticanS claim that even the absorbing
mental process of working out diff
cult problems is conducive To- Ion
gevity Leibnitz. they tell Ill. lived
his seventy Years; Euler his seventy
six: Lagrange his sevemty-seyen; La
place his >rvrmIy-cight wears: while
Sir Isaac Newton died at eighiy-five,
Plato at righty-twu. Archimedes at
seventy-fivr. and the somewhat myth
cal Pytha-nraS at ninety. Some of
these anci,:st>, however. were not en-
inPnt matitcmaiicianS. but may b
clasSed a. ..neral philosophers, natu-
raj or metaphysical. Poets do not al
WAYS die before their time. ~ Keats
and Byron and Arthur Hugh Clough
did. On the contrary, the much
abused TcnnN>rm will survive. proph-
c>y. all the terrible criticisms on hi
conservatism. which have been made
about hi> last poem. and perhaps most
severely bv the cX-Primc Minister Glad
stone. VINO conferred the Earldom upon
him. But taking the poets of all times
and countries | find that Pindar lived
la 80. SophOclcs L. 90. Euripidc~ Ia 49,.
SimOnides To 80. Michael Angelo. who
was not only poet, hut painter. sculptor
and architect, To 80. Geoflrey Chaucer,
1.-the father of English poetry" TO IL,
William Wordsworth to so and Walter
Savage Lander To 80. How man of
Landor'S furious temper could live So
long Is miracle.
No life, one would think. could he
more exhaustive than that of Judge
who has To sit for hours together, day
after day. in a crowded court room;
vet many of the Lord ChanccllOrs and
Chief Justices of England, as well a.
Chief Justices of our own country, have
lived far beyond the three score years
and ten.
Sleep is as great medicine and sup
port of the nervous system-and life,
being Interpreted, means the nervous
system. neither more nor leSS-as food.
probably much more so if we may
Judge by some animals that subsist for
all the winter months on sleep
alone. Yet many strong persons who
do not know what it is to lie awake all
night die prematurely, while have
myself met in Brooklyn some persons
who could not get an hours rest in Il
week who have gone on living with
wonderful tenacity.
Dear old Mrs. Delaney used some
times to eat nothing for days, lie awake
all nights for weeks together, cry heI
old eyes out with the half memories of
the days gone by, and yet she exceeded
4 century of life 10y nearly yeaN II
isa remarkable fact that in every ElI-
ropean country statisticians of unques-
tiOnablc character for veracity have
sometimes denied point blank that any
man or woman has attained or exceed
ed the age of 100 years. The greatest
of these longevity <keptics was Sill
George Cornwall Lewis who died
some twenty years ago. He was, if ]
remember. Chancellor of the ExchequeI
for two or three terms under Lord Pal.
merston. At Christ Church. Oxford. ht
was II Double First and WAS regarded al
the Union Debating Society rs the most
reliable authority for facts. A Chan.
celIor of the Exchequer is the last mar